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Automations, GUI Meters and Video playback is not latency compensated

Reason

Live does not support latency compensation for plug-in and mixer automation, GUI meters and video playback.

Clip modulation is also not compensated if plug-ins which introduce latency are being used on the track.

Workarounds

To get accurate mixer automation of tracks which contain plug-ins, freeze/flatten these tracks before automating mixer parameters.

To get more accurate plug-in automation, freeze/flatten these tracks while using a plug-in buffer size of 32 samples.

Note

Using the lowest possible plug-in buffer size of 32 samples (set in the CPU tab of Live's Preferences) gives you the most accurate results, but these are still not compensated or sample accurate.

The downside of working with low plug-in buffer sizes is a significantly increased CPU usage and possible performance issues, e.g. drop-outs.

In general, we recommend setting the plug-in buffer size to 'As Audio Buffer'. This assures the best and most stable performance.For more information, see the section in the Ableton Reference Manual called “Plug-In Performance Options.”